newbie needs help with doctored .avi's

[nickynoodles]

Thanks in advance to all the great minds out there ?
I have two .avi files that I put through divx doctor as self-contained movies and uncompressed audio. I then opened both in QT pro and copied and pasted them together, and saved as self-contained. It plays fine in Quicktime but the frame size is small.

What would be the best way to get this burned on a dvd-r?

I have DVD Studio Pro, Toast 5.2, and QT pro 6.

Once again, thanks for any help.

[galactica]

when you say frame size is small what do you mean??

Also, suggest instead of saving this as a self contained video to use QTPro mpeg2 export to save the file, once you have them together as one. This will allow you have an mpeg2 which works better in dvd situations.

enjoy

[nickynoodles]

Thank you Galatica for responding.
The size of the file is 352 x 288 pixels and the fps is 12.5

The reason I saved as self-contained was I thought this would make it easier to copy and paste.
Should I take the pasted movie and recode it someway?
I still have the original .avi's.

Thanks

[galactica]

Thank you Galatica for responding.
The size of the file is 352 x 288 pixels and the fps is 12.5

The reason I saved as self-contained was I thought this would make it easier to copy and paste.
Should I take the pasted movie and recode it someway?
I still have the original .avi's.

Thanks

What is the frame size of the origional .avi? I assumed it would be the same after the .avi to .mov conversion.

For .avi to dvd (whcih is what your trying to do right??) you need to get the .avi into a .mpeg format.

It would be best to convert the .avi to mpeg2 - which you can do wtih the mpeg2 export. Take the full movie file that is .mov and open it with quicktime. Then export it as mpeg2

You will have to know the actual bitrate and what not of the .avi file because you need to set the quality of your export to the same as the origional source.

Make since?

check the post on DVD-9 to DVD-5 which will tell you how to make the DVD image.

Essentially you can skip most of it since you already have a musex mpeg2 (once you export it that is)

questions still, just post again

[nickynoodles]

Galatica, if you're out there, help!
I exported my mov. in QT to MPEG-2, and it gave me a file that had a icon of a black frame with white inside (never saw that icon before). It also produced an .aif file (almost a GiG in size). When I imported them into DVD Studio Pro and tried to build a disc, it gave me a warning that the file wouldn't fit onto a dvd-r. Did I mess up somewhere? Should I start over with the original .avi files?
Please any more help would be most welcomed.

[ZeroSix]

The problem might be iwth your bit rate... You can use a lower bit rate than the source and usually you will notice NO difference.

The "black" icon you see is actually a thumbnail of the first frame in the video file. Your movie obviously starts with a black screen. The .aif file, however, you have some options. The best option is to convert it to .AC3 using A.Pack which is included with DVDSP. Another option is to convert it to .MP2 using mp2enc in the terminal, but dont go that route.

You would want to use the instant encoder with A.Pack, and make it a 2 channel AC-3 file only using a sample rate of 48Khz and a bit rate of anywhere from 160 - 224. You might want to check the bit rate of the source and go that route. This will result in a MUCH MUCH smaller file size and you might be able to get your entire movie on the disc.

When you export to MPEG2 in quicktime, it will tell you how big the mpeg file will be. Remember that a DVD-R cannot hold more than 4.2 GB despite the 4.7 GB label.

Hope this helps.